Ask Me Anything with Vikas Mittal

Happening 22 January 2022

AMA about "Testing Career Problems: Feeling left out, ask how to prosper"

with Vikas Mittal

Why one should attend?

Hear from our Past Attendees!

This is a really great workshop, with excellent content, practical test techniques and approaches that can be applied in many different contexts. Rob’s passion and energy encouraged great interaction from the workshop participants, and he shared many real case studies and examples from his vast experience to show the practical effects of applying these approaches in the real world. This is an amazing course and Rob is an amazing instructor. Thanks TTT for organising this bootcamp, highly recommended!

SHARON O'BOYLE

Software Tester at IBM

The benefits of JIT for me are that it delves into a hands-on approach into Test idea sources, Test Design and Techniques. Seeing Rob go through Control Flow, Decision Tables and Combinatorics is essential and his coverage of Failure Modes Analysis is the icing on the cake. JIT delves deep and you come out of the course armed with tools and concepts that you can use. The term test idea is always thrown around, but try to find a suitable definition? JIT is full of test ideas along with a definition! Robs is a master at teaching and at provoking thought…..full of test ideas!

MARIO COLINA

B.Eng

Rob Sab’s JIT is a must for testers and developers alike. The workshop examples tie directly to real world testing problems, are practical and quick to implement. My teams have even implemented the ideas from JIT during course breaks. I highly recommend JIT for anyone wanting to understand more about what testing is, how to do it professionally and provide real value.

Adam White

Senior Engineering Leader at Q4

I had several Eureka moments that helped get rid of several myths I seem of have about Software Engineering and Testing. I now have a repertoire of ideas to take back home from this course.

Chidambaram Ganesan

Test Lead at Moolya Testing, India

Key Takeaways

About AMA

AMA allows our community to ask anything they want and get educated and meaningful responses from experienced professionals in the Software Testing field. You can still check out our first season of AMAs with phenomenal members in the Testing field on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thetesttribe

About Speaker

Vikas Mittal is the Head of Xebia’s distinguished Centre of Excellence—Digital Assurance (DA). The IIT Delhi alumnus joined Xebia in 2019, and his responsibilities include strategizing DA processes, optimize operations, and improve practices for seamless execution and successful deliveries of DA projects. His focus area also traverses the development of automation solutions for Software Testing Lifecycle and DevOps using the latest technological innovations in Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics.

Leader by spirit, Vikas is spearheading the team of Digital Assurance professionals at Xebia, helping and supporting them all in accomplishing their personal as well as company goals. His expertise in architecture, design, and implementation of test automation frameworks and solutions enables him to serve Xebia’s high-end customers well.

Vikas pursued various certification programs viz; HP Mercury LoadRunner v9.0, HP Mercury LoadRunner v 9.0, HP Mercury VuGen Software 9.0, HP-Mercury Certification Quality Center 9.2, and HP-Mercury Certification Quick Test Professional 9.2 that helped him develop technical skills and competencies.

His career history of 18+ years features eminent employers in the global IT industry such as Infogain, IBM Global Services India, CMS, and Fiserv. In 2002, the young and dynamic engineering graduate began his career as Quality Assurance (QA) engineer and grew up to work at senior-level positions of Global Head, Quality Assurance, Global Head of Testing Horizontal, Chief Solution Architect, and QA Lead in top-notch IT & software development companies.

Vikas has been involved in mentoring and guiding 300+ test engineers over a period of last 2.5 years in the experience bracket of 7-12 years to answer fundamental questions on

How to improve and showcase value as a tester in an Agile environment
Growth-paths which exist for a tester but are left unexplored
What is the need of future technology organizations from a tester?
How to be future ready

In last 8 years bring responsible as head of testing for 3 different organizations, Vikas has hired and mentored 2000+ testing professionals. Working with global fortune 100 customers has also uniquely helped Vikas to look at technology closely and how leaders are thinking about using it in the future.

How will the session be conducted?

Online! You will get the details post registration.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who can Attend This Bootcamp?

This course is for software project team members involved in testing, programming, business analysis, software construction, and deployment.

Can an experienced candidate attend this course?

Yes, if he/she wants to validate their current automation approach and pick up ways to extend their practice – especially using tools to support test design.

Do I need to join from my Laptop/Computer?

Yes. There will be hands-on activities involved.

Any other prerequisites?

None – but this would be more relevant to someone with testing or development experience.

Will this be hands-on training?

Yes, All topics will be covered with hands-on exercises.

If I have doubts in solving the assignment, or otherwise?

You can get your doubt solved with the instructor in the session, or can get in touch on a 1-1 communication channel.

What if I miss attending any session?

We highly encourage attending all the sessions live. However, if you miss a particular session, we will share the session recording so you can cover those topics before the next session. Please note that this will be approved on a case to case basis.

Will I get any post-workshop guidance?

Yes, our instructor is friendly and loves to help Testers. You can freely contact for any guidance and there will be monthly common sync-up as well.

Will I receive any material after the workshop?

Yes, you will receive notes/cheat-sheet. All examples including source code are provided.

Will I receive any certificate?

You will get one participation certificate and a completion certificate (on completing the final project).

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